I live to be inspired. I am inspired by hand embroidery, fibers, textures,art, music and life in general.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Freebird

The Goldfinch is available at Valley Artisans Market
in Cambridge NY.

One of the most beautiful sounds in nature is the
sound of a songbird singing its special tune, flying from tree to tree, free to
fly wherever it wants to go.There is nothing
lovelier then watching a crow strut, a couple of love birds cooing, or cute
little sandpipers at the beach.

For most of my life I wasn’t able to enjoy the
beauty of a bird.I had a severe bird
phobia, not just your run of the mill bird phobia, but a full blown, anxiety
ridden, couldn’t breathe kind of phobia.When I was a young girl I came home to find my two pet canaries dead on
my kitchen floor, an event so traumatic I almost couldn’t write this
sentence.Dead birds where a constant
theme in my childhood and even today if I am very anxious I can picture them in
my mind.

Art gave the beauty back to me.Art healed my bird phobia when last year I hand
embroidered a series of several different birds.I made a bluebird, a goldfinch, a sparrow, a
whack a doodle bird and a series of hand embroidered ornaments with several
different types of birds in them.Expressing
those birds through art set me free from my bird phobia.I still will walk a block out of my way to avoid
a dead one but­­ I can look at the living ones and enjoy their songs, their
colors, and freedom.

Art has a way of fixing all that ails you if you let
it.Finding a way that is just right for
you can be somewhat of a challenge, but if you give yourself and your problems
to art it can make you heal.I have
discovered that if you are an artist and you are not expressing your life, your
life expresses you.Some say art is not
a job it is just a hobby, but sometimes art and music and literature can mend
your heart.Whether it is the end of
your bird phobia or a song that makes you dance as if you were young again, art
is important.

Everyone chooses their own path in life, or again
someone else chooses it for them.But
art is something personal, a way of expressing ourselves in our own unique way
just like the songbird.You can see the
uniqueness if you look at photography as a medium, two people can look at the
same bird and capture it differently.It works that way in all of the arts sharing unique expressions of the
same theme.

That leads me to the song of the day Freebird was a
song made popular by Lynard Skynard.My
favorite line of the song is I’m as free as a bird now and this bird you cannot
change.That is a cry for the unique if
I ever heard one.Find your uniqueness
and share it.

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I am a hand embroidery/fiber artist living in Saratoga County in Upstate NY. My work is available The Katbird Shop in Schenectady and Valley Artisans Market in Cambridge NY. I I do custom work and give classes, for further information or if you have any questions please email me at Das813@yahoo.com.